Article

Mentioned Companies:

See Archive
Back Issues

US General Purpose Card Networks through 3Q 2025

From January 1 through September 30, 2025, American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa brand credit, debit and prepaid cards issued in the US generated $8.469 trillion in purchase volume for goods and services. This was up 6.4% compared to the first nine months of 2024. For the complete ranking, log in and download Issue 1299. Credit card purchase volume of $4.781 trillion grew 5.6%. When measuring combined debit and credit card purchase volume, credit cards accounted for 56.45%. This was down from 56.88% for the same period of 2024....

Want to read more?

Please log into your subscriber account.
OR

Check out our subscription offers.
New subscribers receive over 130 articles in the 22 issues published each year, plus the last five years of issues (that’s over 1,200 articles) as a download link, which are fully searchable in PDF format.

View Subscription Offers
© Copyright 2026 Nilson Report

Newsletter

Nilson Report

1299

January 2026
Subscribe Now
Get a Free Sample

Articles in this Issue

JPMorgan Chase to Buy Apple Card Portfolio
Stock Market Results by Payment Processors in 2025
US General Purpose Card Networks through 3Q 2025
Darwinium Fights Cyber Fraud from Generative AI
Walmart Opposes Merchant Settlement with Mastercard, Visa and Top Card Issuers
M&A in Merchant Processing and Acquiring—2025
FreedomPay and Nuvei Form Global Partnership
Global Brand Card Transactions Projected Worldwide — 2030

Charts, Tables and Graphs in this Issue

Available only to subscribers

Global Brand Purchase Transactions Projected Worldwide 2015 Through 2030

Purchase Transactions 2015–2030

Market Shares of Purchase Transactions by Region 2015 vs. 2025

Percentage Growth by Region 2015 through 2025

M&A in Merchant Processing and Acquiring—2025

Largest M&A Deals in Merchant Processing, Acquiring in 2025

US General Purpose Cards (Jan. 1-Sept. 30, 2025, and Change vs. Jan. 1-Sept. 30, 2024)

Publicly Traded Payment Processors — Market Capitalization Change

Processors by Market Cap at Year-End 2025

Investments & Acquisitions (December 2025)